# 1903 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1903 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn
* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank
* Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams
* Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis
* Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)
* Bishop of St Davids – John Owen

## Events

* 4 April - Operations begin on
** Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway.
** Wrexham and District Electric Tramways.
* 14 November - End of the lock-out at Penrhyn Quarry near Bethesda (begun 1900), the longest major industrial dispute in British history.
* Sygun Copper Mine is abandoned.
* Closure of the life-boat station on Ynys Llanddwyn.

## Arts and literature

* Arthur Machen marries Dorothie Purefoy Hudleston.

### Awards

* National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Llanelli
** Chair - John Thomas Job, "Y Celt"
** Crown - John Evans Davies

### Cinema

* July - William Haggar releases Desperate Poaching Affray, seen as an important influence on the chase genre of film.

### New books
#### English language

* J. Romilly Allen - Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times
* Sabine Baring-Gould - A Book of North Wales
* Bertrand Russell - The Principles of Mathematics

#### Welsh language

* Jonathan Ceredig Davies - Awstralia Orllewinol
* D. M. Lewis - Cofiant y Diweddar Barchedig Evan Lewis, Brynberian, 1813-96
* Llyfe Mormon (translation of the Book of Mormon)

### Music
## Births

* 1 January – Horace Evans, royal physician (died 1963)
* 9 February – Gipsy Daniels, Welsh boxer
* 24 March – Gwilym R. Jones, poet and editor (died 1993)
* 14 April – Glyn Simon, Archbishop of Wales (1968–71; died 1972)
* 17 April – Thomas Rowland Hughes, novelist, poet and dramatist (died 1949)
* 1 May – Geraint Goodwin, writer (died 1941)
* 9 May – Tudor Watkins, Baron Watkins, politician (died 1983)
* 6 June – Ceri Richards, artist (died 1971)
* 22 June – Harry Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1978)
* 18 August – Dorothy Edwards, novelist (died 1934)
* 8 November – Ronald Lockley, ornithologist and naturalist (died 2000)
* 22 November – David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore (died 1976)
* 2 December – Jim Sullivan, Wales and British Isles rugby league player (died 1977)
* 6 December
** E. D. Jones, librarian of National Library of Wales (died 1987)
** Will Paynter, miners’ leader (died 1984)

## Deaths

* 15 January – David Howell, Dean of St Davids, 71
* 30 January – William Jones, historian, 73
* 17 February – Joseph Parry, composer, 61
* 19 February - Samuel Arthur Brain, businessman and politician, 53
* 8 March – Morgan Thomas, surgeon, 78
* 12 April – Daniel Silvan Evans, writer and lexicographer, 85
* 18 May – Richard Mills the younger, composer and music teacher, 62/3
* 19 June – Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, 71
* 24 June – Richard Fothergill, coal-owner and politician, 80
* 15 August – John Pryce, clergyman and writer, Dean of Bangor, 73
* 13 October – Morgan B. Williams, Welsh-born United States politician, 72
* 18 September – Sir Llewellyn Turner, politician, 80
* 9 December – Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist, 87
* date unknown Sir Walter Morgan, judge, about 82